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Mississippi sets an execution date for a man who's been on death row since 1976
The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25.
Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee death row inmate, declines to select execution method
Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled to die on May 22, declined to select a method meaning it ...
White supremacist inmate gets federal prison for threatening Alabama DA with ‘horrible and painful death’
The threat was driven by the conviction of Marco Perez, who was convicted of killing Mobile Police Officer Sean Tuder.
After Biden commuted federal death row sentences, DAs are weighing state charges
A White House executive order called on the U.S. attorney general to determine whether former federal death row inmates “can ...
Several DAs Consider Charges Against Former Death Row Inmates With Commuted Sentences: Report
NBC News reported on Sunday that several district attorneys are considering, or have considered, state charges against some ...
Gov. George Ryan, who emptied state's death row but served time for corruption, dead at 91
Gov. Ryan purged Illinois' death row just three days before his term ended, though he never regretted the decision.
Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Texas DNA Procedure Fizzles Out
A death row inmate was unable to convince a federal appeals court that Texas’ post-conviction DNA-testing procedures violate his right to due process on Thursday.
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan dies at 91. He halted executions and went to prison for corruption
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, disgraced by a corruption scandal that landed him in prison yet ...
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Former Gov. George Ryan dead at 91; remembered for corruption conviction, halting death penalty
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan died Friday morning at 91, more than two decades after leaving office for the last time and ...
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Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee death row inmate, declines to select execution method
Oscar Franklin Smith, a Tennessee death row inmate scheduled for ... a supervisory assistant federal public defender, said. When an inmate does not choose, the method defaults to lethal injection.